Support Eberly

A Message from the Dean

Your ongoing investment in our success has created a vibrant and thriving Eberly College of Arts and Sciences. We are the pre-eminent institution of higher education in West Virginia. We achieved that position with the help of private donors like you who believe in the power of an arts and sciences education. Last year you provided over $11 million to support priority areas with in the College.

This year we are challenging ourselves to break all previous fund raising records. Your investment today will ensure that we remain strong and continue to grow our national and international reputations. I invite you to join us now as we work to move to the next level of competitiveness and service by raising funds in these five important, priority areas:

• Research
• Graduate Fellowships
• Undergraduate Scholarships
• Innovative Leadership
• White Hall

Mountaineers always rise to a challenge, and I am confident that with your help and support we will meet and exceed our fund raising goals this year. Please join us as we preserve the tradition, strengthen the value, and celebrate the innovation of a liberal arts education from the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences.

Research
Research is intrinsic to the mission of a land-grant institution. Research in the Eberly College is creating a body of scholarly work that drives, shapes, and informs the issues of the day; powering economic development in the state and the world; and discovering breakthroughs that dramatically improve our quality of life and push the boundaries of our universe.

Become a part of the equation that makes this research possible, today!

• Advanced Energy Initiative Program
• Astrophysics Program
• Nanotechnology Program
• Center for Literary Computing
• Civil War Studies

Graduate Fellowships
The Eberly College is committed to attracting the highest quality graduate student in a competitive market. We select innovators and leaders to become graduate students at WVU. They are involved in groundbreaking research, mentoring undergraduate students, and creating a body of work that will advance scholarship here at WVU and in their future careers. Join us as we:

• Create a series of new graduate student stipends that will allow the College to supplement the basic salary for those students who are teaching introductory level courses, overseeing laboratory learning, or assisting professors with large classes.

• Dedicate resources that will assist our graduate students in their development as professionals, including support for research and conference presentation.

Undergraduate Scholarships
As part of our commitment to research initiatives, Eberly has created a special, undergraduate scholarship program to support students in the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). Providing competitive scholarship support for outstanding in-state and out-of-state students will improve our ability to attract the most qualified, and highest caliber students to our programs.

• Endowed STEM Scholarship $50,000
• Academic Scholarship $25,000

Innovative Leadership
Committed and talented faculty set an institution apart from its peers. Academically gifted students attend University’s that can offer them access to faculty of national and international prominence. A commitment to rewarding and supporting the research and service activities of our current faculty ensures that we maintain continuity and leadership in our programs. Creating endowed professorships enables us to attract and retain world-renowned talent.

• Endowed Deanship
• Chairs in Biology, Geology and Geography, or Psychology
• Distinguished Professorships
• Ethics Program
• WVU Press

White Hall
Continuing the exciting trend of capital building and campus revitalization at WVU, White Hall will become the new home of the Department of Physics. Your support will provide the best research and instructional facilities with the cutting-edge technology necessary to attract and retain excellent students and faculty. WVU’s commitment to maintaining the historical character of its buildings ensures a modern facility that respects the history and tradition of the many students in the Department of Geology and Geography and the College of Mineral and Industrial Resources who have called White Hall home.

• Endowed Department of Physics
• Laboratories
• Planetarium